Note the distance between Pakistan and Bangladesh. Before the secession of Bangladesh, Pakistan was "a country divided in two wings a thousand miles apart, that fantastic bird of a place, two wings without a body, sundered by the land-mass of its greatest foe, joined by nothing but god..." (Rushdie, 186)
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Present day India
Present day Pakistan
Present day Bangladesh
Present day Afghanistan
Colonial India in 1947- Here we can see the religious composition of colonial India. Also note the inhabitants of the areas that would become Pakistan. "It was well known that the term Pakistan, an acronym, was originally thought up in England by a group of Muslim intillectuals. P for the Punjabis, A for the Afghans, K for the Kashmiris, S for the Sind and the tan, they say, for Baluchistan." (Rushdie, 85)
The earliest proposed map of the "Pak Commonwealth of Nations," c. 1940. Created by Chaudhry Rahmat Ali, founder of the Pakistan National Movement (who also coined the Pakistan acronym). This map provides some insight regarding the complications involved in creating a nation based on common faith while the Muslim population density was scattered.
Ottoman Empire. I found the vast size of the Ottoman Turk's Empire astounding upon my first view of this map. In its time, this was "the greatest of Muslim states in terms of duration." Its rise began "in the late 13th century" and its decline began in "the late 1780's.".
A map of present day tribal areas in Pakistan. "The semi-autonomous tribal lands consist of seven parts called “agencies”: Bajaur, Momand, Khyber, Orakzai, Kurram, and North and South Waziristan. There are also six smaller zones known as Frontier Regions in the transitional area between the tribal lands and the North-West Frontier Province to the east." This map offers a glimpse of the diverse cultural composition of the nation.
This map shows population denstiy in Pakistan. As we can see there are vast stretches of land that are sparsely populated.
References:
http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/14/1614-004-ECF334AE.gif https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/af.html **https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/pk.html** https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html
http://www.islamproject.org/education/Ottoman_Empire.html
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/modern/maps1947/maps1947.htmlhttp://resourcesforhistoryteachers.wikispaces.com/CSA.2http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P008
http://www.views.pk/tribal-areas-of-pakistan
http://www.mofa.gov.pk/Maps/PAK_Populatrion.jpg